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  Sony Sees Holiday PS3 Sales Hit 1.2 Million
by Brandon Boyer
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January 7, 2008
 
Sony Sees Holiday PS3 Sales Hit 1.2 Million
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Sony has announced hardware sales figures for its holiday period running from post-Thanksgiving 'Black Friday' to the end of the year, claiming combined sales of 3.9 million, including 1.2 million units of PlayStation 3.

Sony's figures run from November 23, 2007 to December 31, 2007. In addition to the 1.2 million PS3s, Sony said it sold 1.4 million PSP units and 1.3 PlayStation 2 units.

Sony claims the upcoming PSP releases of God of War and Final Fantasy: Crisis Core, as well as further success of Buzz and SingStar will ensure a strong year for both platforms.

SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton said the holiday sales were proof that the PlayStation brand "ended the year in a very strong position and clearly indicates more positive momentum going into 2008. We are particularly pleased to have sold through 1.2 million units of PS3 during the holiday selling season."

He concluded, "The strong PS3 sales also further establish Blu-ray's dominant position as the high-definition medium of choice for games and movies. Consumers are clearly responding to the expanding multimedia capabilities and a great line-up of over 200 games."
 
   
 
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Super Dynamite
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It was only a matter of time. I mean, PS3 is the best bang for your buck.

Roberto Alfonso
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Super Dynamite, the 1.2 million includes the Black Friday, the weekend with the highest sales of all year in America, and is missing a week of relative low sales from January. Therefore the December 2007 period may peak at a 800,000 units, half of what Xbox 360 is expected to do, and still less of what Xbox 360 did on its first year.

Anonymous
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I own both systems and am finding it hard to justify buying games for the PS3 when they have so few interesting exclusives, and when games available on both systems are generally much cheaper on the 360 and have more people online playing them.

Still, 2008 is a new year.

Anonymous
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It all sounds like a bunch of political talk-around to me. Let's just hope that Sony learns their lesson next generation and stops building these consoles that are optimized for protein folding and prime number calculators. We want games; not music visualizers of Earth in orbit. PS3 needs to have a price that matches it's quality and selection of games $99.99 and MAYBE I'll look into POSSIBLY buying one SOMEDAY.

Anonymous
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butbutbut you can draw no sorry calculate sooooo many particles..... the ps4 will be able to render them I guess.....


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